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| 1832 | Jackson, Andrew |  |
| 17th June Washington A Tariff Act is passed favouring Northern manafacturers over Southern cotton growers |
| 1837 | Buren, Martin van | |
| 25th Aug Washington Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis |
| 1873 | Grant, Ulysses Simpson | |
| 8th Sep Financial panic is caused by over-production & withdrawal of foreign capital |
| 1894 | Cleveland, Grover | |
| 22nd Nov Washington The USA& Japan sign a commercial Treaty in Washington |
| 1921 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| Washington Wants return to "normalcy", favors protective tariffs & high taxes on war profits |
| 27th May Washington Emergency Tariff Act, increases duties on farm products & other goods |
| 1921 | Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| 26th Sep Presides over the National Conference on Unemployment, estimated at 5.7 million |
| 1922 | Harding, Warren Gamaliel | |
| 18th Feb Harding signs the Capper-Volstead Act, exempting the farmers from federal antitrust laws permitting them to share prices and orchestrate supply |
| 1924 | Dawes, Charles Gates | |
| 9th April Reports on the German economy, submitted to a committee chaired by Charles Dawes |
| 1929 | Hoover, Herbert Clerk | |
| Washington When the depression spreads to Europe Hoover accepts a moratorium on debts |
| 25th Oct Black Friday on the stock exchance of New York starts the world economic crisis |
| 1933 | Long, Huey | |
| July Tries to stop the National Indus trial Recovery Bill by talking for 15hrs but fails |
| 1933 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| Introduces the "New Deal" |
| 6th Mar USAbanks close for 4 days due to a financial crisis |
| 30th April The USAcomes off the gold standard |
| 16th June The National Recovery Act is passed by Congress |
| 3rd Sep 9 March-16 June, 1st phase of the "Hundred Days" to reform the economy |
| 1935 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| Washington Concentrates on social security & sets up a works progress administration |
| 1941 | Roosevelt, Franklin Delano | |
| 27th May Roosevelt declares a state of emergency, the government assumes wide-ranging control of the economy & pledges to resist German aggression |
| 1971 | Nixon, Richard Mulhouse | |
| Floats the American dollar |
| The USA imposes a 10% surcharge on all imports, aimed in particular at Japan |
| 15th Aug Announces a 90 day freeze on prices, wages & rents |
| 18th Dec The USAdevalues the dollar by 7.9% & lifts the import surcharge |
| 1978 | Carter, Jimmy | |
| Calls for voluntary wage restraint & reduction of private borrowing |
| 1988 | Reagan, Ronald Wilson | |
| 2nd Jan Washington The USA& Canada sign a free trade pack |
| 1989 | Bush, George Herbert Walker | |
| 9th Feb President Bush, in his first major speech to Congress , proposes a $1.16 trillion "common sense" budget for fiscal 1990 |
| 1992 | Bush, George Herbert Walker | |
| 17th Dec Signs the North American Free Trade Treaty |
| 1993 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| Supports the North American Free Trade Agreement for ratification by the USASenate |
| 1999 | Clinton, William Jefferson Bill | |
| 19th Jan President Clinton proposes that government invest in the stock market to strengthen Social Security in his State of the Union Address |
| 2001 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 17th Sep New York The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates to help prevent a recession |
| 2007 | Bush, George Walker | |
| 5th Feb President Bush says the $2.9 trillion budget will eliminate the federal deficit by 2012 without increasing taxes |
